Vicster wrote:
The Sea Cat wrote:
Invaluable on one of my regular trips to West Cork. There's so many sites in Ireland that are unmapped, but with Julian's help you can find them all. All of the farmers I've asked permission from have been great, but one looked slightly freaked at me striding out of the mist, all wild haired and in my Pentangle Solomon's Seal T Shirt and striped Indian cotton trousers. We got talking, and he very kindly invited me in for breakfast. Wonderful dude with lot's of local faerie knowledge as well.
Hmmmm, not so if you ever want to find Aghnacliffe Dolmen which appears in the wrong county in the ME!!!
Vx
I've only just noticed this post which intrigued me. Firstly, thank you the prompt to get my neglected copy of TME down; I didn't realise Ireland was in there so I've got some serious reading to catch up on.
I see on the map (page 221) that Aghnacliffe is shown as being in Wicklow; I haven't visited Aghnacliffe yet, but I must - my mother was brought up in a little hamlet nearby called Dernavogy by Loch Gowna in County Longford. She knew the Aghnacliffe dolmen as the 'old stones in the field'.
By the way Vicster, I really enjoyed your fieldnotes on Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar. I visited in June and my impressions were similar to yours. I got very high at the Ring of Brodgar ... the air and the blue sky/sea, I think. I also visited Jarlshof on Shetland which was a memorable experience. Unfortunately, I had a new camera and didn't realise it was set at A2 (very large dimensions) so I wasn't able to post any of my photos here and never did get around to re-sizing them.
